Fluorescent Plant Grow Light

Went to lowes and grabed myself some things to start a grow
one of my homies told me to grab this fluorescent plant grow light
and he never grew indo before so i rather ask more experienced growers

- High UV output plant light
- white finish
- frosted acrylic diffuser
-15 w/F15T8 fluorescent bulb
- Price: $14


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How many bulbs? You'll need at least 4 bulbs for one plant, if you want good growth rates. Do you know the color temp of the bulbs? "High UV" tells us it's towards the blue spectrum, but is pretty vague. 6500K is ideal, but lots of other temps will work okay. You'll probably want to take the diffuser off too, as it'll reduce output.

You will need a lot more light than that unit is capable of producing. Save the $14, plan on spending $35 to $50 for high output cfl's and a D.I.Y. fixture. Any ?, give a shout. Good luck & good grow.......BB

Burger Boss said:

You will need a lot more light than that unit is capable of producing. Save the $14, plan on spending $35 to $50 for high output cfl's and a D.I.Y. fixture. Any ?, give a shout. Good luck & good grow.......BB

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yee still i was lookin at it seen more watts up in cfls, i already got a couple cool whites and daylights bout bring that light back and grab them cfls

took a hit of that purp kush folks

about that diffuser (cover) on the fluorescent lites... do you take it off to get more direct/intense lite to the plants or leave it on to...diffuse the light, duh? commonsense question i guess but just wanted to throw it out there. thanks.

^Ditch it, it'll reduce the peak output reaching the plants.